Semantic Web Dog Food

Presented at: 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008)

by Simon Scerri, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker

In this paper, we introduce a formal email workflow model based on traditional email, which enables the user to define and execute ad-hoc workflows in an intuitive way. This model paves the way for semantic annotation of implicit, well-defined workflows, thus making them explicit and exposing the missing information in a machine processable way. Grounding this work within the Social Semantic Desktop [1] via appropriate ontologies means that this information can be exploited for the benefit of the user. This will have a direct impact on their personal information management - given email is not just a major channel of data exchange between desktops, but it also serves as a virtual working environment where people collaborate. Thus the presented workflow model will have a concrete manifestation in the creation, organization and exchange of semantic desktop data.

Keywords: personal information management, semantic email, social semantic desktop, speech act theory, workflow patterns, Collaborative Software, Natural language processing, Natural Language Processing, NLP, Semantic Web

Resource URI on the dog food server: http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2008/paper/325
Same as: http://revyu.com/things/eswc-2008-paper-semantic-email-desktop
Same as: http://semanticweb.org/id/Semantic_Email_as_a_communication_medium_for_the_Social_Semantic_Desktop

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